Hvar & the Pakleni Islands · Croatia · Wall · Reef
Baba Reef
A gentle slope turning into a wall below the Baba lighthouse
Baba Reef lies at the Baba lighthouse in the Pakleni Islands, about 20 minutes by boat from Hvar. It combines a gradual slope and a wall in one dive, with moray eels and lobsters living on the rock and a chance of a seahorse when the dive comes back into the shallows.
Also known as Baba.
Where it is and how deep
43.1683° N, 16.3950° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.
The dive
The bottom descends slowly from 5 m to 20 m, where the wall begins. The wall drops to 30 m and in places to 40 m, with scorpionfish, moray eels, forkbeard and lobsters along it among yellow gorgonians and sponges. The dive then returns to the shallows to search for octopus and, on a lucky day, a yellow seahorse.
Marine life and season
- Octopus & cuttlefish
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair | Fair | Fair | Fair | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Fair | Fair | Fair |
Season follows Hvar & the Pakleni Islands: Boats run from 1 May to 1 October; no month stands out as best for the diving, and August is the busiest.
Sources
- Dive Sites - Aqualis Diving Center Hvar — Aqualis Diving Center Hvar
- Baba Reef - ScubaGo — ScubaGo
- OpenStreetMap: Baba islet — OpenStreetMap
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